The Brookhaven leader., 1887-01-13
THE GREAT DISTRIBUTION.
Sermon by Rev. T. De witt Tall
mage, d. d,
A New Apportiopment-The Earth to BE
Captured for Christ-Heaven to he
Shared by the Redeemed aud the
Unfallen-Final Rewards.

EOAOWlIS Is the SerUOnf
My family, who saw il with their eyes
year before last, tell me that in the Col
iseum at Rope, where prosecutors used to
let out hag-starved lions to eat up Chris
tans, plere is now planted the figure of a
croSS.. And rejoice to know that the up
right piece of wood nailed to a transverse
piece has become the symbol, not more of
suffering than Of victory. 1t is of Christ
tie Conqueror that my text speaks. As
a kingly warrior, having subdued an en-
pre- might divide the palaces, and man
sions, and cities, and valleys, and mount.
aims, among his officers, so Christ is going
TO divide up all the earth and all the
heavens among His people, and you and
will have to take our share if we are
strong in faith and strong in our Christian
loyalty, for nv text declares it: " He shall
divide the spoil with the strong"
The capture Of tins round planet for
Christ = not so much Of a job as you might
imagine, when the church takes off its coat
ana rolls up its sleeves for the work,
as it will. There are 12,O0J, 0OO,0OO PEG.
pie now in the world, and there
are 4jOnOOOO Christians. Subtract the
4j0,OOJ,O0J who are Christians from
the 1900, 100000 and there are ll.5jO.-
OOoO00 left to be Christanized. Now divide
the 1l.ID, 100000 by the 45J,OOO,OOO already
Christianizcd. and it makes only twenty
five people Tor each Christian to bring TO
Christ Surely. when the church gets
wldr awake, no Christian will be content
r. take to Heaven less than twenty five.
Why. hope to take with me at least To-
600 | know evangelists that have already
gathered 5000 each for the kingdom There
are at least 100000 men IN Christendom
whose one business it Is 10 save souls. So
hot yr-b. | toll oil hot
average IS twenty-five souls reaped fUf
God IN lifetime. all idea Of impossibility
vanishes from this omulpotent crusade
| know Of Sabbath-sChool teacher who
has spent her life time III teaching the
young, ami she has had live different
classes duI1rg all these years, and she tells
me they averaged about seven in class,
and they were all converted, and five times
seven are thirty-tive, Is near as | can cal
culate. She brought her twenty-five, aud
had ten to spare My grandmother
brought her whole family into the king
dom, and her grandchildren, and, | hope,
all her grandchildren. for God re-
members prayer seventy five years old
as we'll as though it were a minute: ami
she took her twenty-five into the Kingdom
and had at least one hundred to spare Be-
sides that, the telegraph and the telephone
earth INFO a compass of ten minutes. Con
slider mis-, and also that OmnipOtence,
Omp,scicuce ana Omuiprescnce pres de
over all the work Of bettcrment and You
will take this enterprise Of the worlds re-
demptiUn out OF the .mpossibllites into the
possibilities, and then out of the possible
ties into the probabilities and then out Of
the probabilities into the certaintles The
building of the Union Pacific railroad from
ocean to ocean was greater undertaking
than the girding Of the earth with the
a6ospel, fer the one enterprise depended
upon the human arm while the other de-
ponds upon Almightmess.
Do l really mean all the earth will SUR
render TO Christ! Yes How about tae
uninvitng portions: win Greenland be
evangelical. The possibility is that after
few more hundred brave lives are dashc
out among the icebergs, that great refrg-
orator, the Polar region. will be given up
to the Walrus and the bear, ami the inhab-
itants win come down by invitation into
tolerable climates. or those climates may
soften, and. as it has been positively DEM
onstrated that the Arctic region was once
a blooming garden and fruitful field,
those regions may change climate aad
again be blooming garden and a fruitful
field 1t is proved beyond controversy by
German and American scientists that the
Arctic regions We're the first portions of
this world inhabitable; the world hot be-
yond human endurance, those regions
were of course the first to b. cool enough
for human foot and human lung. 1t IS
positively proved that that Arctic region
was :. tropical climate.
Prof. Heer, of Zurich, says the remains
OF flowers have been found in the Arctic,
Il. oil
and it is found that the Arctic is the moth
er region IRON which all the flowers de-
seconded Prof, Wallace says the remains
of all styles Of animal life are found in the
Arctic, including those animals that cGl
live only in warm climates. Now that
Arctic region which has been demOnstra,-
ed by fora and fauna and geographical ar
gument to have been as fun Of V, getation
and life as our Florida, may be turned
back to its original bloom and glory, or It
will be shut up as q museum of crystals for
curiosity seekers once in awhile to visit.
But Arctic and Antarctic in some shape
will belong to the Redeemer's realm
What about other unprouuctivc or re-
pulsive regionsl All the deserts win be IL
rigated, the waters will be forced up to the
great American desert between here and
the Pacific by machinery now known or yet
70 be invented, and, as great Salt Lake
City has no rain and could not raise an
apple or a bushel of wheat in one hundred
years without artificial help, but IS now
through such means one great garden, 80
all the unprOductive parts of all the CONT
nents will be turned into harvest fields and
orchards A half-dozen De Lesseps viii
furnish the world with all the canals
needed, and will change the course Of rivers
and open new lakes and the great Sahara
desert will be cut up into farms with an
astounding yield Of bushels to the acre.
The marsh will be drained of its waters
and cured of its malaria.
| saw the other day what was for many
years called the Black Swamp of Ohio, its
chief crop chills and fevers, but now, hy
the tiles put in the ground to carry off the
surplus moisture, transformed into the
richest and healthiest regions. The God
who wastes nothing, l think, means that
this world, from pole TO pole, has come to
perfection of foliage and fruitage. For that
reason He keeps US running through space,
though so many fires are blazing down in
its timbers and so many mock terrors have
threatened to dash it to pieces. As soon as
the earth is completed God will divide 1t up
among the good. The reason He does not
divide it now is because it is not done. A
kind father will not divide an apple among
his children until it is ripe. In fultillment
of the New Testament pr mise, 1.-THE meek
shall inherit the EARTH" and the promise OF
the Old Testament, HE shall divide the
spoil with the strong" the world Will be
apportioned TO those worthy to possess 1t.
1t is not 50 now In this country, capa-
BILE Of holding, feeding, clothing and shelter
ing 100 00O, 900 people, and where we have
only 60, 10000 inhabitants, we have 2,OOO,-
~, Ia q nd